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European leaders stood up to applaud Merkel

European leaders stand up to say goodbye to German chancellor Angela Merkel participating in its 107th and last European summit meeting after 16 years in power.

“I hope you will not be angry with this ceremony for your last summit,” said, according to a European source, the President of the European Council Charles Michel. “The 27 meetings without Angela are like Rome without the Vatican or Paris without the Eiffel Tower,” he added.

“He is a person who for sixteen years has marked Europe and helped us, and the Twenty-Seven, to make good decisions with a lot of humanity in very difficult times,” the Belgian Prime Minister had previously said. Alexandre de Croix, broadcasts AFP.

“Merkel’s departure” will leave a big gap, because she is a person who has been in office for a long time and has had such a great influence on the development of the European Union, “said the Austrian Prime Minister. Alexander Salenberg. “He was an architect of peace within the EU. He is undoubtedly a great Europe.”

The chancellor is “a huge politician and has been an important factor in stability in a very complicated situation,” said the Lithuanian president. Gitana Naouseda, expressing his “immense respect” for her face.

“It was such a compromise machine that when things were not going well, we knew we had Angela (…). “He always found something to unite us and allow us to move forward.” Xavier Bethel. “Will miss him. It will be missing in Europe. “

The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Merkel’s former defense minister, had recently stressed the extent to which the German chancellor’s analytical spirit was crucial to unblocking the sometimes endless European negotiations.

Praise and criticism

In recent months, European Union leaders have been increasingly praising and thanking the woman who has led Germany since 2005, almost as much as the chancellor of the German reunification Helmut Kohl (1982-1998).

Leading the continent’s first economic power, however, Merkel was sharply criticized for Berlin’s stance during the crisis in the euro area, which followed the global financial crisis (2008-2009), but was later praised for its management immigration crisis of 2015 and that he finally agreed to take on a common debt from the 27.

Germany will have new chancellor before christmas, according to the timetable set yesterday by Social Democrats, environmentalists and liberals negotiating the formation of a government, with the Olaf Solts to take over the leadership of the country in early December.

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